Question

Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: Sixty-five randomly selected car salespersons were asked the number of cars they generally sell in one week. Fourteen people answered that they generally sell three cars; nineteen generally sell four cars; twelve generally sell five cars; nine generally sell six cars; eleven generally sell seven cars. Calculate the following:

mode = _______

Short answer

Mode$=4$

Step-by-step solution

Given information

From sixty-five car salespersons, fourteen people answered that they generally sell three cars; nineteen generally sell four cars; twelve generally sell five cars; nine generally sell six cars; eleven generally sell seven cars in one week.

Explanation

According to the given information, the data is

$$\begin{gathered} 33333333333333444444444444444444455555 \\ 555555566666666677777777777 \end{gathered}$$

The total number of observations is $65$. Hence the mode is the car sell occurs the highest number of times that is sold has the highest frequency. Here we get the highest frequency of $4$which occurs $19$times.